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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Age: 85 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 29
Died: 1894
Died: October 7
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.
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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
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